Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-07-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

head crooned forward.
KNEE breaches are becoming popu-
lar on the Eastern Coast.
THERE are now less than 100000
slaves in the empire OF Brazil.
The total production of coffee in
the world is about 100000 tons.
MORE than 5000 persons in New
York make living by street music.
LoNoKE COUNTY, Ark, has a red
oak tree that would split up into q
900 rails.
THIS country consumes about 1922
100000 worth Of patent medicines
every year.
EIGHTY-FoUR different languages and
dialects are regularly spoken in New
York City.
The New Orleans Picayune says
that it is lucky child that looks like
it's rich aunt.
NEWARK, N. j., expended 100000
on q sewer, and now finds the scheme
to be failure.
NINETEEN millions OF the 6O,OOO,-
900 of people in this land are mem
bers of churches.
ELEVEN acres of land Of San Jose,
CAL, have been leased as the site for
new Chinatown.
The latest tad in French medicine is
"kinesitherapy" or treatment of dis
ease by gymnastics.
THE whole length Of mail routes in
operation in the United States
amounts to375, 900 miles.
EASTERN mountains are now being
visited by the perspiration-covered
residents Of the great cities.
In New Jersey many farmers are
doing their moving by night to spare
their horses and themselves.
The anti-treatment movement re-
Gently organized at Macon, Ca, is
spreading rapidly through the state.
SINCE the heated term set in at New
York large increase in the number
of suicides and crimes has been noted.
THERE are said to be thirty-two
summer resorts along the Atlantic
coast between Cape May and Long
Branch.
A CHURCH in Birmingham, Ala,, has
female choristers, who wear tastefully
designed SUPPLIES OF Scotch lawn and
violet caps.
AN Englishman writes to Henry
Labouchere that he wants to enlist,
but is unable to do so because his
teeth are bad.
Mrs. A. B. COULTER, OF Fairbanks,
1o hoe 10 1r,IY
16, 600 pieces less than the size of q
mans thumb nail.
The Weekly Courant, of Hartford,
Conn, Is the Oldest newspaper in this
country, having had an uninterrupt-
ed career since 1854.
THE transcontinental railroad COM
panies give it out that 5000 persons
are booked for California during the
coming fall and winter.
THE largest nugget Of silver yet ob.
tanned was dug in Arizona, and
weighed 43, 200 ounces, valued BIT the
same number Of dollars.
A NEW club house now being built
| by the Arion Society, Of New York
will cost when completed, 100000
The society is 80 years old.
MASSACHUSETTS men charge only So
to certify to a public certificate that
they were cured Of consumption by
somebody's patent medicine.
A NEW thing in New York lunch
rooms Is g. zlzzag counter, at which the
customers sit back to back. 1t util
ICES all the space in the room.
A CITIZEN OF Syracuse, n. Y, claims
to own the largest dog in the world
The animal weighs 2O3 pounds and
measures 6 feet inches from nose to
tail.
A PETR1FIED pine knot was a curios
about one foot in length and had the
shape and appearance Of an ordinary
+! knot.
A PLEASANT device for ornamental
| ton at French garden party was a
fountain, at the base of which were
blocks Of ice mingled with ferns and
! flowers.
Miss BERTHA L. Wilson, who gradu.
ated at the Milford (Mass.) High
School, is said not to have missed a
single school session during the past
| Gou ohES.
LUMBER is in great demand IN San
Francisco, the supply not being equal
to the wants of the buyers, All coast
mills are running and new ones are
being built.
OF the 200 members OF the Amer
lean Association for the advancement
of science, about 1000 are expected
to be present at the August meeting
| New York.
A $4,000 granite monument re-
Gently erected in Calvary Cemetery,
New York City, by blind man bears
| this inscription: "To outlast the
British Monarchy"
PERSONS having trade dollars
should present them to the banks or
send them to the treasury depart
ment in Washington before Septem Der
| /, if they wish to have them redeemed.
THE colored people of Washington
are preparing to give Fred Douglass a
rousing reception on his return
from Europe, which is expected to